2009-2010 Events
Wednesday, September 23, 5 pm, WLH 309
Elizabeth Reis, University of Oregon
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
Thursday, October 22, 5 pm, HGS 211
Mapping the Modern Self: Women’s Sexual Identities in Interwar Britain and Germany
Laura Doan, University of Manchester
Mis-taken Identities: The Case of the Hon. Violet Douglas-Pennant
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Marti Lybeck, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse
Emancipating Desire or Desiring Emancipation? Women’s Sexual Identity in Germany, 1924-1933
Thursday, November 12, 5 pm, WLH 309
Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University
Sexual Revolution in France and the Algerian Man, 1967-1974
Thursday, December 3, 5 pm, WLH 309
Michele Mitchell, New York University
A “Corrupting Influence”: Idleness and Sexuality during the Great Depression
Thursday, January 21, 5 pm, HGS 211
Frank Mort, University of Manchester
Sex Scandals, Elite Culture, and the Post-Victorian City: The Profumo Affair, London, 1963
Monday, February 8, 5 pm, HGS 211
Richard Godbeer, University of Miami
The Overflowing of Friendship: Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic
Thursday, March 4, 5 pm, HGS 211
Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
The Geisha in G.I. Khakis: Treachery, Homophobia, and Orientalism in a Cold War Trial
Thursday-Saturday, March 18-20, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Rethinking European (Homo)Sexual Modernity
A three-day conference organized by the Department of History of the University of Antwerp in collaboration with the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities. Confirmed speakers include Rudi Bleys (Independent scholar, Antwerp), George Chauncey (Yale University), Dan Healey (Swansea University), and Dagmar Herzog (City University of New York Graduate Center). For more information, visit: http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.SEXUALMODERNITY
Thursday, April 15, 5 pm, HGS 211
Amy Kesselman, State University of New York at New Paltz
Coming Out, Coming In, and “Be-Coming”: Lesbians and the Women’s Liberation Movement in New Haven, 1970-1977